ARNOLD, Thomas.History of the Later Roman Commonwealth, From the End of the Second Punic War to the Death of Julius Caesar; And of the Reign of Augustus: With Life of Trajan.
London: B. Fellowes; F. and J. Rivington...... 1845. In two volumes. First edition.
Tall 8vo.,
orig. green blindstamped cloth,
viii, (544); (iv), 476pp. This copy is an ex-library with a new front free e/paper in one volume, the name of the institution stamped in gilt on the rear board, discreet number on titlepages, and a faint mark at the foot of the spines from labels but it is in fact a near fine set in the original cloth.

CASTELAR, Emilio.Old Rome and New Italy. By....Translated by Mrs. Arthur Arnold.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. First edition in English.
8vo.,
orig. rust cloth,
(viii), (9)-(302), 8pp.ads. Name on title, a bit of wear to spine ends, a better than very good but not near fine copy.

CHIABRERA, Gabriello.La Firenze Poema Di......Divisio In IX. Canti Cogli Argomenti Di Donileo Eginetico.
Ferrara: Per Giuseppe Rinaldi, 1777. Later edition. (first published 1615, there was also an edition in 1628). With the bookplate of Stillman Drake.
12mo.,
full cont. calf,
147, (1)pp. Ink name on front blank, worm holes in rear blanks and the last leaf not affecting the text, binding rubbed with wear to extremities, a good copy.
Gabriello Chiabrera [1552-1638] Italian poet. Along with Marini, Chiabrera is one of the greatest lyric poets of that century. Chiabrera especially was a devoted student of Greek and is often called the Italian Pindar. But he also used the French poet Ronsard as a model. "He used to say that he strove to follow Columbus in discovering a new world, a new world of poetry, as a reaction against the conventionalities of Petrachism and the degenerated taste of the century." "On the whole, his poems are marked by splendid epithets, beautiful images , grace of form, richness of rhyme....."

CRAWFORD, F. Marion.Salve Venetia Gleanings from Venetian History. With 225 Illustrations by Joseph Pennell.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1905. In two volumes. First edition.
8vo.,
orig. turquoise cloth with decoration in gilt and white on upper cover and with a smaller version of the same on the spines,
xii, 517, (4); xii, 441, (4)pp.ads. Bookplate o/w a fine copy.